Autumn budget: NHS spending
HM Treasury has published two documents relating to NHS spending following the Autumn budget:

• NHS spending: Autumn Budget 2017 brief – sets out details of the government’s policy on NHS spending following the budget which announced £6.3 billion of new funding for the NHS in England
• Funding for local groups of NHS organisations – sets out the first twelve schemes due to benefit from government investment in STPs

Preventing malnutrition in later life
The Malnutrition Task Force has published State of the Nation: an overview of older people and malnutrition in the UK today.  This report focuses on the scale and challenges of malnutrition in later life in the UK.  It brings together information, statistics and evidence from across the health and social care system to highlight what is happening to older people who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition in England.

Nutritional care tool report
The BAPEN Quality and Safety Committee has published Nutritional Care Tool Report 2017. It provides organisational-level data on how nutritional care is organised and patient-level data on the quality of nutrition in hospitals, care homes and community organisations.

Statistics

• Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England – August 2017 Final, including reports on the integrated services pilot
• Bed Availability and Occupancy – Q2 2017-18
• Diagnostic Imaging Dataset – November 2017 and Annual Report 2016/17
• NHS Health Check quarterly statistics – November 2017

Brexit and medicines regulation
The House of Commons Library has published Brexit and medicines regulation.  This briefing provides an overview of current medicines regulation in the UK and the relationship with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and regulatory agencies in EU Member States.  It considers what the options may be in this area following Brexit, and presents comment on these from stakeholders

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• National radiology review launched over ‘significant backlog’ fears 
  The Care Quality Commission has launched a national review of radiology capacity after it found “significant backlogs of radiology reporting in some trusts.”
• Lack of Treasury funding delays consultant contract to 2019 
  A new contract for senior doctors in England will be delayed until 2019 due to a lack of transition funding from the Treasury, HSJ has learned.
• New £800m specialist hospital planned for London 
  A new 550 bed hospital costing £800m will be built in London over the next decade, according to plans revealed to HSJ.
• Out of hours care provider bought for £11m 
  An out of hospital care provider has been bought by a private limited company.
• Government pledges £3.5bn capital to NHS over next five years 
  The Treasury has commited an extra £3.5bn to NHS capital spending over the next five years, with the service expected to raise the same sum itself through land sales.

Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff
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• Recruitment video showcases Cumbria as the place that’s ‘got it all’ Three NHS Trusts – Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust (NCUH) and North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS) – along with Cumbria Health on Call (CHoC) have joined forces to showcase the range of opportunities on offer for health professionals in Cumbria . The video features 18 […]
• Understanding Your Data: 1 day workshop How to Understand Your Data: 1 day measurement and data training aims to give participants an in depth understanding and knowledge of data and measurement for improvement within healthcare. Do you have the skills to understand your improvement data? Do you struggle with your data? Unsure what your stats are telling you? Not quite convinced […]
• Introducing the UK’s largest patient information video library… Health and Care Videos, a partnership with Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, are proving that video is making an impact on reducing demand and increasing capacity in health and care with the largest centralised health information video resource in the UK. With over 750 health and care videos in their collection, they are […]
• iSPACE dementia friendly surgeries  iSPACE has been a very successful project undertaken in Hampshire, Dorset, South Wilts and the Isle of Wight. It has now spread to over 150 surgeries and the final report of the project can be found on Wesses AHSN website, http://wessexahsn.org.uk/news/1806/wessex-ahsn-publishes-final-outcomes-from-making-the-region-s-gp-surgeries-dementia-friendly
• Celebrating NHS Staff in Cumbria Two Cumbrian NHS Trusts have joined up to produce a magazine that celebrates the hard work of health professionals in the county. Trust Talk, the quarterly magazine, has been produced by Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) for several years as a way of showcasing news from their services. The magazine will now be a […]